I followed the instructions on http://web2pyslices.com/main/slices/take_slice/68, which were starting to make sense but I am confounded with this error when i visit http://www.scadzombies.com/web2py :
-------------------------------------------------------------- Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmas...@scadzombies.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/2.2.16 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.16 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_fcgid/2.3.5 Phusion_Passenger/2.2.15 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.scadzombies.org Port 80 ----------------------------------------------------------- I believe this is reminiscent of the error that I get when I try to run web2py through ssh ever since I changed the routes.py script. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "web2py.py", line 20, in <module> import gluon.widget File "/home/scadzomb/public_html/web2py/gluon/widget.py", line 25, in <module> import main File "/home/scadzomb/public_html/web2py/gluon/main.py", line 101, in <module> rewrite.load() File "/home/scadzomb/public_html/web2py/gluon/rewrite.py", line 119, in load p[sym].append(compile_re(k, v)) File "/home/scadzomb/public_html/web2py/gluon/rewrite.py", line 83, in compile_re return (re.compile(k, re.DOTALL), v) File "/home/scadzomb/local/lib/python2.6/re.py", line 188, in compile return _compile(pattern, flags) File "/home/scadzomb/local/lib/python2.6/re.py", line 243, in _compile raise error, v # invalid expression sre_constants.error: unbalanced parenthesis ----------------------------------------------------------------------- On Dec 4, 7:21 pm, pbreit <pbreitenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately, Python in general is a bit harder to deploy than HTML > and PHP. Site5 has a few different hosting options so to help out it > would be good to know what sort of plan you are on. If it's Shared > Hosting, I think you will want to try the "fastcgi" option. The web2py > book doesn't really provide information on this however. > > If you have: > /home/username/public_html > /home/username/web2py > > Add and ".htaccess" file at: > /home/username/public_html/.htaccess: > > And put this in it: > > AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi > RewriteEngine On > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./web2py/fcgihandler.py/$1 [QSA,L] > > There's going to be one major problem in that you can't access > "admin". This page discusses these issues but for > Dreamhost:http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Web2py > > I have had the best luck running the "web2py.ubuntu.sh" script on > fresh installs of Ubuntu 10.04 at Amazon or Rackspace Cloud.